Laurie's Violin School: Off to the ASTA Conference in Salt Lake City!

This week Robert and I are road-tripping to Salt Lake City for the American String Teachers Association (ASTA) convention. I'm looking forward to taking in some lectures and performances, meeting with colleagues, and also seeing the exhibition hall full of sheet music, teaching materials, instruments, gadgets for instruments and more. And of course, I'll be blogging all about it!

ASTA is an organization for string and orchestra teachers and players, founded more than 60 years ago. The annual convention provides an opportunity for members of the strings community to come together to promote excellence in teaching, to see what's new in string-related products, to find opportunities to collaborate and to devise ways to keep music education thriving.

If you will be there, I hope to see you! I'll be the one scribbling notes and taking pictures. (I'll also have copies my book, Violinist.com Interviews, on hand, and I'll be happy to sell you one and sign it!) Robert (the technical half of Violinist.com) also will be there and available to talk about sponsorship opportunities.

If you are at ASTA, please stop Robert or me to say hello and ask for one of our V.com postcards!